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It's good to know the government's really making an impact with initiatives aimed at tackling youth unemployment. Witness the case of young Tom, who was thrown out of work in May last year along with hundreds of his workmates. Now, Tom associated with some pretty dodgy characters in his time, ...
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Siren voices
In its first major report on the emergency ambulance service, the Audit Commission calls for action to deal with rising demand. Mark Crail reports
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Facing both ways at once
The unions are opposed to PFI, but are also resigned to government enthusiasm for it. At Blackpool, the TUC resolved to fight to protect members from its 'perverse effects'. Patrick Butler listened in
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A hole in the wall
Not everyone is convinced that the government's proposals for joint working with social services will deliver what is needed. Thelma Agnew reports
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Special cases
Omagh health visitors have doubled their workloads to support people affected physically and mentally by the recent bomb explosion. And they will keep going as long as necessary, they tell Pat Healy
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To boldly go...
Are the World Health Organisation's 21 Health For All European targets a Utopian dream for the 21st century? Wendy Moore talks to those who dare to believe they can be achieved
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Joined-up thinking on human resources strategy
A welcome lack of pious platitudes, but a sting in the tail - and a catch
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NHS dentistry up a gum tree
We are living in a country where people travel 300 miles for dental care
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IHSM members need to know the truth about its troubled finances
Recent correspondence on the subject of the Institute of Health Services Management has prompted me to go back over this summer's reporting of news from the institute in HSJ, now the institute's only source of regular media profile.
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Heretic's six-figure salaries - that's rich
I was dismayed at the attitude behind Heretic's snide throwaway line about half of all hospital consultants now earning six-figure salaries
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No beauty in the eyes of Northwick's users
John Weeks (Letters, 10 September) does indeed have a subjective view of Northwick Park Hospital. He seems to confuse good functional design with attraction.
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View to a skill
Developing primary care groups is arguably the central plank of the reforms outlined in The New NHS white paper.
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The Big Grapple
It may be the world's richest city, but its huge homeless population lacks basic healthcare, and health workers struggle to cope with drug misuse, psychiatric illness, disease and an unforgiving political culture. Kate Adams reports on living and dying in
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Change in account rules could spell the end for PFI
Strict new accountancy rules will mean the end of the private finance initiative in the health service, it has been predicted.